Great Bowerbird
Photo: Richard Bowdler Sharpe · Public domain

Bowerbirds

Great Bowerbird

Chlamydera nuchalis

LCLeast Concern Endemic to Australia
Family
Bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae)
Order
Passeriformes

Overview

The great bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) is a common and conspicuous resident of northern Australia, from the area around Broome across the Top End to Cape York Peninsula and as far south as Mount Isa and Townsville. Favoured habitat is a broad range of forest and woodland, and the margins of vine forests, monsoon forest, and mangrove swamps.
As with most members of the bowerbird family, breeding considerations dominate the lifecycle: females nest inconspicuously and raise their young alone, while the males spend most of the year building, maintaining, improving, defending, and above all displaying from their bowers. Only a male with a successful bower can attract mates.

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Last updated September 29, 2026.